Clinton Gaffe At Our Lady Of Guadalupe Shrine

Hillary should have brought her reset button with her so she could reset the ignorant question she asked the priest, Diego Monrroy in front of an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe inside the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City. As she laid flowers at the Our Lady Of Guadalupe Shrine, she looked up at the image of Our Lady on Juan Diego’s cloak, and asked, “Who painted it?”

Msgr. Monrroy answered, “God”.

Doh!

Surely, not only Catholics are aware of the story behind Mexico’s most popular religious and cultural image?:

In 1531 a “Lady from Heaven” appeared to a humble Native American at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of what is now Mexico City.She identified herself as the ever virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the True God for whom we live, of the Creator of all things, Lord of heaven and the earth.She made a request for a church to be built on the site, and submitted her wish to the local Bishop. When the Bishop hesitated, and requested her for a sign, the Mother of God obeyed without delay or question to the Church’s local Bishop, and sent her native messenger to the top of the hill in mid-December to gather an assorment of roses for the Bishop.After complying to the Bishop’s request for a sign, She also left for us an image of herself imprinted miraculously on the native’s tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth, which should have deteriorated in 20 years but shows no sign of decay 477 years later and still defies all scientific explanations of its origin.

Even if this story is not well known outside of Catholic circles, shouldn’t she have familiarized herself with it before she visited the shrine? Asking who painted that image of the Virgin Mary on the tilma, is like asking who painted the image of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin.

I can see that Secretary Clinton may offended a few religious nuts by asking who painted the picture, but it’s a perfectly reasonable question to which the answer (whatever it may turn out to be) is obviously not “God.”

No, it wasn’t a perfectly reasonable question for a Sec. of State to ask while visiting the Shrine of the “patroness of the Americas”, at what’s considered by the natives to be the holiest spot in the western hemisphere. That is what we call, “cultural illiteracy” aka an embarrassing “gaffe”.

I am thrilled that Clinton was anywhere NEAR the tilma. May God and the Blessed Mother continue to answer our prayers and try to help our leaders be renewed and change their hearts. I don’t think it was a coincidence that Clinton made an unexpected stop at the shrine. The Blessed Mother may be trying to call her. I pray that Clinton learned a little bit about the history of the tilma and will be open to letting the Blessed Mother work in her heart, as we pray she works in all our hearts.

Donna, we all pray for our leaders, but so far Ms Clinton’s heart has been closed to God’s message of life. As, I mentioned in my post, she went out of her way to accept an award from Planned Parenthood – The MARGARET SANGER award, of all things, the very next day.

Mina , the quesiton of whether God can do this or that doesn’t enter into it. My coffee tasted good this morning and I put this down to the fact that I selected high quaity beans and paid attention to brewing it. It isn’t necessary to frame the hypothesis that God made the coffee and implanted a false memory of making it in me.

Likewise with a painted picture. It is unnecessary to hypothesize that God painted it and in doing so gave it all the appearance of having been painted by a human.

“What’s it like to live without wonder?” I don’t know what that’s like. I ind considerable wonder in nature; I do not need to make up stories about miracles with coffee beans or paintings.

The Virgin of Guadalupe doesn´t have an explanation scientific, it´s a big Gift from God.
It is one of The Manifestation of The Love of God through The Virgin of Guadalupe.
Faith and Confindence, these are the tools more important in the way of God.